In Firefall, every resource has a quality of 1-1000, this gets transfered to gear when you craft it (for example, a minigun crafted with resource 543 will have quality 543). My question is how much does quality really matter. Will a tier 2 item pretty much ALWAYS be better than a tier 1 regardless of quality? Does quality increase things like DPS, clip size, accuracy, etc. or does it just modify constraints (that's all I noticed when crafting my tier 1 gun).
In short. Should I be picky about what quality I craft with?
EDIT: With Game updates this question is no longer valid as game updates have removed the quality system alltogether
Best Answer
In short: yes. A T1 item made with high-quality materials should approximately match (if I'm not mistaken) a T2 one made with low-quality stuff.
Somewhat longer: gear is made of subcomponents. Each of those subcomponents' quality increases a single attribute of the final piece from its base attributes. For example, a rifle barrel will probably affect damage per round, while a magazine will affect magazine size. Higher tier equipment will use more subcomponents and thus allow for greater overall customisability, and also have higher base attributes.
Also keep in mind that using higher-quality materials will increase an item's power and mass requirements, so you may want to use more basic materials for subcomponents you consider less important.